Tag holder



. Feb. 26 1924. 4 l,484,776

A. F. HANNEY ET AL TAG HOLDER Filed Feb. '7. 1923 y Sheets-Sheet 1 HL /L Q Patented Feb. 26, 1924.

ANGUS F. HANNEY AND ALEXANDER GAMMELL, (3Fv CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNORS T0 EUREKA. ROUGH DRY PIN SYSTEM GO., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TAG HOLDER.

Application led February 7, 1923. Serial No. 617,539.

To @ZZ @fi/10m 'it may concern.'

Be it known that we, Ariens F. HANNEY and ALEXANDER GAMMELL, citizens of the United lStates, and residents of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tag Holders, of which the following is a specification.

Qur invention relates to improvements in tag holders especially designed for holding laundry assorting tags similar in structure to that illustrated in United States Letters Patent No. 1,411,092 issued to Angus F. Hanney and has for its principal object the provision of an improved construction of this character which will be highly efficient in use.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which,

Fig. 1, is a side elevational view of a tag holder embodying the invention;

Fig. 2, is a top plan view of the same;

Fig. 3, is a sectional view'taken substantially on line 3-3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4, is a sectional view taken substantially on line 4 4 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 5, is a` sectional view taken substantially on line 55 of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates the holder which includes a handle 10 carrying a plate 11 having lateral bosses 12 and 13 formed on one side thereof. Screw threaded in the boss 12 is a rod member 14 having a tapered extremity 15; the rod member 14 being adapted to receive the laundry tags 16 from the supporting rod 17. The supporting rod 17 is similar in structure to those commonly used in connection with an asserting reel employed by laundries for assorting rough dry work. The rod 17 as shown is channel shaped in cross section and provided with a tapered socket 18 at one end thereof into which the tapered end 15 of rod14 is adapted to be inserted. The rod 14 when in this position, reference being had to Fig. 1, is adapted to receive the laundry tage from the support 17 by shifting the laundry tags thereonto.- Screw threaded in the boss 13 is a lock rod 19 carrying a catch 20 at its outer extremity, the catch 2O being adapted to clampingly engage the rod 14 adjacent its outer end as shown in Fig. 1. The catch 20 is disengaged from rod 14 upon shifting the laundry tags from the support 17 to the rod and after all the laundry tags belonging to one specific lot are moved onto .rod 14 the catch is -moved to clampingly engage the rod preventing removal of the laundry tags therefrom. The distance between rod 14 and the lock rod 19 is such that the laundry tags are prevented from pivoting any great distance while carried on the rod 14.

As is customary in the system employed by laundries commonly known as wet wash laundries, a number of laundry tags bearing identification numbers are used for sorting out the clothes in lots so that each owner will receive the same number of pieces that he sent to the laundry, the tags of like number being mounted on the support 17 by passing the support through the opening 17 thereof. After these clothes have been removed from the laundry tags our improved tag holder is brought into use and by inserting the tapered end 15 into the tapered socket 18 the laundry tags of like numbers are removed from the support as already herein stated onto the rod 14 and locked on suchrod by the catch 20.

It is ,apparent that by the use of our holder we are able to-keep the tags of like number together and that the construction ofthe holder is such that the tags can be conveniently mounted thereon and again removed therefrom when desired. Further it is apparent that our improved tag holder can be economically manufactured and Vplaced upon the market at a small cost.

While we have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction for carrying our invention into effect, this is capable of variation and modification without departing from the spirit of the invention. We, therefore, do not wish to be limited to the precise details of construction set forth but desire to avail ourselves of such modifications and variations as come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having described our invention what we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent isf V y,

1. A device of the class described includlili ing member whereby the tags can be transiferred from the tag carryingmember onto the elongated member.

2. A device of the classdescribed including in combinationwith a-laundry tag carrying member'having a socket formed in one end thereof, of'an elongated member having Va tapered endinsertable in the socket to facfilitate the positioning of said members in end registration, yand a handle member cair-` rying lsaid elongated member.-

BIA device of the class described Vincluding in Icombination with a laundry tag carrymernber,lof an elongated memberhaving means facilitating the positioning' of said members in end registrationvvith each other, and a handle member carrying said"elon gated members.

4. A device of the classdescribed ineluding a `handle member, an elongated member etending4 from said handlemember adapted to receive articles and having a ltapered end portion, an elongated member extending 'from the handle member and in-parallel relation with the first named elongated member and provided with means adapted to engage the first Vnamed ,elongatedI member adjacent vthe tapered end" there`of for locking the articles on said'Ymejmlder.A

` 5. Alaundryvtag holder4 including a plate, a handle on said plate, lateral bosses on one side of saidplat'e in yspaced'relation,vvith re# speci to each otheryfa rod memberearfiedby one of said bosses and having@ Yitaperejd lend and adapted l,to receive a number of laundry tags,` and a rody membercarried by the other boss, a member on' said last named rod member adapted to clampinglypengage the other rod member adjacent the outer end thereof to prevent displacementof the tags carried thereon.

.6r A device' 0f the dass described induding a handle member, anelonga'ted member extending -from the handle member adapted to receive articles, and means vproviding a lock to prevent displacement of the articles received by said elongated member.

A device of the `'class described includf ing an elongated member adapted to receive articles', a second elongated member extendtirst named elongated member, and4 means carried by the second elongated member providing a lock to prevent displacement of the lrticles received by said first elongated memer. w

8.l A device of the class described including a plate, a handle on the plate, and elongated members carried by the plate in spaced relation With respect to each other, one of said members having a tapered end .portion for facilitating the positioning or said mem@ yber in registration vvithy a tag Vsupporting Vmember xiv-herebyv the tags carried byVV said supporting member will be transterredto said elongated member, and meanscarried by the other of the parallelelongated mem-V bers providing a lock to preventidisplacement of `articles received by the elongated member 'having the tapered .end portion.

9.' The combination With anpelongated Y.

lsupporting member, of an'elongated holding member, there being afrecess in said'supporting'member and the'end of said holding member being reducedto enter` said recess; an elongated stop member arranged adja cent to and substantially parallel -vvith'said y holding member; and a swingingH latch mounted at the end of said'stop member and engaging the end of :said holding member.

10.' A liolderkot the class' described comprising aA handle member;l an elongated member projecting. from said handle 4member, the freel of said elongated Vmember being provided With means for holding the saine registration with'. another similar member; a Vlocking member also projecting fromsaid handle substantially parallel with said :holding member and va latch pivotally mounted on the tree yend of said locking member and engaging saidholding member.

lntestimony Whereof'tve have signed our names to thisspeeilication inthe presence of tivo subscribing Witnesses. l

ANGUS F. l'rlANNEY. ALEXANDER GAMMELL.

Witnesses:

` VvlosH'UA R. H. Porre,

Y Fenna C, ArPLEToN.

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